John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
Posts Tagged ‘Disruptive Technology’
Disruptive Technology in Healthcare IT – Major Vendors Back Off?
March 28, 2007
In a response to a letter regarding the lack of major vendors at the HIMSS Venture Capital fair, Christensen and Raynor’s in The Innovator’s Solution is cited regarding how established companies often view disruptive technology as a threat. They suggest, “The proven solution is to have senior managers make a solid commitment to address and allocate resources to the disruption and then place the responsibility to
commercialize it in an independent organizational unit.”
Is Web 2.0 one of those disruptive technologies being ignored or seen as a threat? For instance, why purchase an extensive knowledge management system if an open source Wiki can catalog your business knowledge across the enterprise.
Perhaps companies like PracticeFusion free EHR will challenge some major players to rethink strategy.
Disruptive Technologies 2007
January 3, 2007
In an article from Information week titled, 5 Disruptive Technologies To Watch In 2007, the authors pick Web Services as one of those technologies. Broadly defined, the author site Software as a Service (SaaS) as well as Web 2.0 technologies as fitting this category and “a solid application platform.” Everything from enterprise email hosting to AJAX applications to expense and travel applications are now available as web services for the enterprise. How fast will organizations, particularly those in health care, move essential functions to web services rather than hosting multiple operating systems in house. It comes down to a question of what the business of healthcare is (patient care) and how essential it is to have internal services. Web Services can be internally hosted as well and part of a broader Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Quotes from the article: “The good news is that we finally we have a software architecture and business model that can meet our growing need for agility” and “Web makeovers, go slowly on deploying these technologies, start with some basic skills on CSS or RSS before moving any deeper, understand what expertise you have in-house versus what you need to purchase, and examine whether your existing portfolio of Web applications needs to be updated with more modern and dynamic content tools.”
